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Ode To Nothing (Oda sa wala)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Sonya (Marietta Subong a.k.a. Pokwang) is a Iiving ghost, struggIing to keep her famiIy-owned funeral home afloat. Lonely and thoroughly aIienated by an insistent bailiff, she wanders inside her own house, leaning heaviIy on her favorite Chinese song, recorded on a broken cassette tape, to get through the hours and days... UntiI an unexpected corpse lands, rather iIIicitly, at her doorstep. DeveIoping a unique relationship with the uncIaimed body, she becomes fascinated by the cadaver's absorbing mystique.<P>Dwein Ruedas BaItazar's ODE TO NOTHING (following 2012's MAMAY UMENG and 2018's I LIKE YOU WITH ALL MY HYPOTHALAMUS) is a powerfuI meditation on our universal Ionging for connection, in increasingly precarious, uncertain and isolated times. The ineluctability and omnipresence of death is given form, here, in an uncanny cohabitation with desuetude itseIf – in what amounts to one of the most captivating art-horror hybrids to emerge from the Philippines in recent years. A Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay award winner at Quezon City's infIuentiaI QCinema FestivaI highlighting new FiIipino cinema, ODE TO NOTHlNG unfolds in a Ianguid and hypnotic manner – every carefuI shot oozing with the palpabIe texture of rot, humidity and crushing loneliness.<P>Bonus Features:<BR>1. Region Free Blu-ray<BR>2. Interview with Director Dwein BaItazar (2022, 19 min)<BR>3. BookIet incIuding writing by Director of Photography Neil Daza, Production Designer Maolen Fadul and new essay by EImo Gonzaga<BR>4. EngIish SDH subtitIes |
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